Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real Harvard would be something of a shock to someone who had come here expecting to experience the affirmative-action version, full of deans eager to hire more women and minority group members, elaborate, ultrademocratic salary scales, and not a hint of ingrownness or elitism. It's a pleasant world, this affirmative-action Harvard, but the plan as a description of the University doesn't ring very true...
...razor," and shipped back to Britain. Dadd spent the last 40 years of his life in madhouses, dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886. One of his infrequent visitors wrote that though he was still plagued by "thick-coming horrors and portentous visions," Dadd was by then "a pleasant-visaged old man with a long and flowing snow-white beard with mild blue eyes that beam benignly through spectacles when in conversation, or turn up in reverie until their pupils are nearly lost to sight...
...Tempest, part of a repertory offering that will alternate all summer with Oscar Wilde's Salome, is still in previews at the Publick Theater on Soldiers Field Road in Allston. Remember the Public is an outdoor theater, so this could be a very pleasant way to spend a hot summer's night. Shows tonight through Sunday start at 8, admission costs...
...halfway through his term in office, Soglin seems to have succeeded in doing just that. He has not moved fast or far enough to satisfy his more radical backers, nor has he gone too far for many of the middle-class merchants who formerly controlled the pleasant, lake-bordered city of 176,000. But he has managed to get both groups talking with each other and, in the process, given the city a year of good, if unconventional government...
Last week the issue was raised starkly in a murder trial in rural Lake Pleasant, N.Y. Two attorneys for a man accused of one killing revealed that they had known for six months of two other murders committed by their client. They had kept silent because they felt bound by the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship...